In a departure from earlier work, Eileen Myles' Skies is a book of pared-down, cloud-like poems, wisp-like on the page yet as intensely colored as a sunset. Although their work conjures the texture of wind and the broad spaces of the sky, these poems are not serenely pastoral. Rather, Myles' sparse blank verse is concerned with the diaphanous qualities of perception, as if her momentary experiences were as slippery and translucent as clouds. A sometimes brutal loneliness and urgent but stoic sensuality results, finding its expression in simple colors: orange, grey, yellow, white, rose.
- ISBN10 1574231758
- ISBN13 9781574231755
- Publish Date 1 November 2001
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 April 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Black Sparrow Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 200
- Language English